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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by smoldesu on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:51AM (#32001865)
> Or maybe the Linux desktop will just die because it was always obscure, unpopular and fragmented with a severe lack of developers.

I certainly believe that this is more likely than everyone transitioning to Wayland. And, when it inevitably does, I don't think the majority of people are going to pick Wayland to run their legacy systems on. If both desktop servers stopped development today, I reckon they'd have to pick the most-finished option.

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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by Crysstalis on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:51PM (#32004428)
I don't think those people with legacy systems running on X11 will pick Linux at all. They will probably use XQuartz, or one of the many X servers that runs on Windows. BSD may even work for them. The only reason to use Linux is for dependency on some kernel features, X11 can be used on any other OS kernel.
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